This week is Education Week across Victoria. On Wednesday we celebrated Education Week by having an open morning for Parents, Grandparents, Aunts/ Uncles and other family members. It was fantastic to see a wonderful turn out to work with the children in the classrooms. This is a vital component in working with and connecting to families. If parents are wanting to become more involved in the classroom please see your child’s classroom teacher. If you would like to be involved in wider school activities please see Mr Tactor. Parents do need a ‘Working with Children’s check’. Mr Tactor will be organising a session later this term on how to apply for the ‘Working with Children’s’ check if you do not have one.

PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS

Parent Teacher Interviews will be held on Thursday 29th June 3:30 – 6:00pm and Friday 30th June 8:45am – 12:00. Children can come to the interviews. There will be no classes on Friday 30th June due to interviews.

Parent Teacher Interview requests will be sent out in early June.

Reports will be sent home on Monday 26th June.

Principal’s Prattle

Moe South Street Primary School

Volume 17 Issue 14 26th May 2017

DATES FOR THE DIARY

29th May - 5/6B Sustainability excursion 31st May - 5/6A Sustainability excursion 1st June - 5/6C Sustainability excursion 20th June– School Council 23rd June— Pyjama Day (Gold coin donation) 29th June - 3:30—6 Parent teacher interviews 30th June - Student free day (students are welcome to attend interviews) 8:45am—12 Parent teacher inter-views

P.A.R.T. Positive Accountability Respect Teamwork

2017

TERM DATES

Term 1 : 30 Jan—31

Mar

Term 2 : 18 Apr—30

Jun

Term 3 : 17 Jul—22

Sept

Term 4 : 9th Oct—22 Friday 30th June.

LATROBE VALLEY DIVISION CROSS COUNTRY

This past Friday we had 15 students represent South Street Primary School in the Western Valley Cross Country event at Newborough East Primary School.

In the 9/10 year old boys Ethan Wildblood made it through to the Division Cross Country meet after fin-ishing in 2nd place. Congratulations Ethan. Other results were Erik Hili 9th place, Blake Hicks 15th place,

Cyrus Havas 19th place, Bailey Parnaby 24th place, Xavier Pace 27th place and DJ Shaw 29th place. In the 9/10 girls Cara Grose finished in 5th place also qualifying for the next round. Well done Cara. Oth-

er results were Willow Moy 12th place, Lily Harding 13th place and Izzie Mitchell 14th place. In the 11 year old boys Alex styles finished in 17th place.

In the 12/13 year old boys race Zac Briganti pushed the pace early and held on to win the 3km race put-ting him into the next round of the Cross Country competition. Fantastic effort Zac! Rory Durham finished

11th overall.

On Wednes- day we sent three students from South Street to represent the Western Valley in the Division Cross Country Event.

Cara Grose came 24th in the 9/10 girls race and beat her previous best finish at divisional level well done Cara. Ethan Wildblood finished 6th in the 9/10 boys race & Zac Briganti finished 7th in the 12/13 boys

race both qualifying to represent the Latrobe Valley Division at the Gippsland Regional Cross Country Event to be held at Lardner Park, Warragul on Thursday 15th of June. Congratulations to both boys. We

are very proud of your efforts and look forward to seeing how you go at the next level.

CHURCHILL & DISTRICT NEWS SHORT STORY & POETRY COMPETITION The Churchill & District News invites all interested age groups to take part in our Short Story and Poetry Competition. Entries will be displayed at Co-Operating Church in Churchill. All participants, parents, students and teachers will be invited to attend this celebration to award prizes and certificates. First prize winners entries will be published in the Churchill and District News. There is no set topic for the competition. Entry fees are stated on the conditions of entry. They are essential for running the competition. Each piece of work should have an entry form attached with the entrant’s name. NO name should be written on the entry. The closing date is July 13, 2017. Entries can be mailed to: Churchill & District News, Writing Competition, PO Box 234, Churchill, 3842. *If your child is interested in entering, you can pick up an entry form at the office.

10th Annual Pyjama Drive 2017

How it works:

For the last 9 years Andrea Cobb at the Housing Call Centre has conducted an annual pyjama drive and arranged distribution of PJs to kids in foster care.

In 2016 Andrea received amazing support from work colleagues, family, friends, community groups including local schools, church groups and Facebook friends that they were able to do-nate 1350 new pairs of PJs to kids in care.

To date, with your help, Andrea has been able to distribute over 3500 pairs of PJs to local kids.

How you can help:

All you need to do is purchase a new pair of kid’s pyjamas for winter or summer. We need PJs for children starting at size 000, right up to a large in adults for both male and female. This ac-commodates all children and teenagers in foster care, however any sizes will be greatly appreci-ated. Andrea will then organise a collection/distribution date and all of the new PJs will be issued to children throughout the State via Child Protection and Foster Care Agencies.

Get Involved:

Please, feel free to get your family and friends involved, the more the merrier.

Return date for the PJs will be Friday 26th May, drop off point being South St P.S Office.

PYJAMA DAY

The SRC are holding a Pyjama Day on Friday the 23rd of June, to help support Andrea Cobb’s Pyjama drive.

Gold coin donation or a donation of a new set of PJs on the day.

Don’t forget to keep up to date with

things happening around the school by

downloading the Skoolbag App!

Available free for iPhone and Android.

SCHOOL BANKING

School banking day is Wednesday.

WE WANT OUR STUDENTS TO TELL US WHAT THEY THINK

We value student voice as a means to improving student engagement, wellbeing and quality in-struction and are conducting a survey to find out what your child thinks of our school. The Atti-tudes to School survey is an annual student survey offered by the Department of Education and Training to assist schools in gaining an understanding of students' perceptions and experience of school. Our school will use the survey results to plan programs and activities to improve your child's schooling experience. The Department has updated the survey for 2017 to include important new measures that are known to influence student engagement and performance. Students from Year 4 to Year 6 at our school will participate in the survey. Your child will complete the survey online during school hours using a purpose built secure online survey tool. It is important to note that we are not in any way “testing” your child. Your child has the right to refuse or withdraw from the survey at any point before, during, or after completion of the survey.

Your child will be provided with a unique login to complete the survey. The student login is an as-signed identifier that may be used by the Department to combine data for research purposes on-ly. Your child’s privacy and the confidentiality of your child’s survey responses will be protected at all times. No identifiable personal data is included in the survey response file.

The survey results will be reported back to the school in Term 3. No student can be identified in the results reported to schools or in any other report of the data. Last year we used the survey results to plan the way lessons are taught, lunch time activities and inform decisions such as what new equipment to purchase for the yard (i.e. the spider web).

This year the Attitudes to School survey will be conducted at our school over the period Monday 22 May to Friday 23 June. The survey only takes 20-30 minutes to complete and occurs during your child's class time. Please speak to your child’s teacher if you would like more information or visit the Department of Education and Training website:

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/principals/management/Pages/performsurveyat.aspx.

LIGHTNING PREMIERSHIP

FROM MR .R Friday a fortnight ago our Grade 5/6 students participated in the Lightning Premiership against all other schools from the Moe/Newborough region. The sports that were played were Football, Soccer, Netball and Volley Stars.

Football results and photos were in last week’s Snippets so I’ll be giving a wrap up of the other sports.

VOLLEY STARS

Our students narrowly missed out on bring home the Runners Up Pennant finishing 3rd

af-ter winning 3 out of 4 matches. Awesome effort!

SOCCER

We fielded 2 soccer teams this year 1 Boys team and a Mixed Girls/Boys team. The mixed side battled hard all day producing a brilliant defensive performance against the runners up NEPS holding them to only 3 goals. They also managed to win their last game of the day to finish on a high note. Keep working hard in class and at lunchtimes and you will continue to improve. The boys side played some very attractive and team orientated soccer. We managed to win all eight of our matches and in an awesome defensive display we did not concede a single goal for the day. This meant the boys won the Lightning Premiership Pennant and move into the next round to play against the best schools from the Morwell and Traralgon districts. Keep up the good sportsman-ship, team play and hard work and I’m looking forward to seeing how we go in a month’s time. Congratulations Zac B, Harry G, Dylan S, Leeton H, Ben M, Cameron W, John S, Bowen P, Charlie W, Jacob D & Caleb M fantastic effort boys!

DENTAL CHECKS

Latrobe Community Health Service (LCHS) are happy to announce they are now able to offer comprehensive dental services to all children (ages 0 – 17).

They are offering appointments from Monday to Friday in Morwell, Moe and Warragul and extended hours at Warra-gul on Mondays to 7pm.

In the past LCHS has offered dental screenings for chil-dren at various schools in the area. In order to capture more children and extend our efforts to ensure children of all ages have a happy healthy mouth, we are sending home a dental check form. If you would like to book your child in for a comprehensive check-up, please complete the details on the form and return it to your school by Thursday 1st June.

Office News

We have noticed that a lot of parents have indicated to pay for excursion through CSEF but have not applied for 2017 CSEF funds.

Applications close end of term - 30th June.

Application forms are available from the of-fice notice board or download from www.education.vic.gov.au/csef.

The annual amount is $125 per student.

TOYS NEEDED!!!

If you have any of the following toys in good condition that your children are no longer playing with the SRC would

love to take them off your hands!

-Barbie Dolls and Clothes

-Toy Tea Sets

-Pretend Food

-Board Games

-Playdough Equipment

-Toy Cars, Trucks & Trains.

-Jewellery Making Equipment.

Please drop them off to the Art Room anytime.

Thanks, South Street SRC.

ANNUAL SHOPPING TRIP

Sat 18th November.

Cost: $55 per person.

ONLY 10 SEATS LEFT!

MEDICAL

Well it feels like winter is upon us.

Please be aware that we have had recent

reports of whooping cough, slap cheek,

head lice and school sores.

Be vigilant of any symptoms that may arise

and seek treatment if necessary.

It’s starting to get cold and the lost

property cupboard is filling up.

If your child is missing any clothing come down to the school and check out the

lost property cupboard.

BEHAVIOUR STANDARDS

In the below table you will find the expected student behaviour standards.

We encourage parents/carers to take a look at the table and get your child/children involved in a discussion about what this table means and how this can be of benefit.

Thanks S.S.P.S.

FROM CLASSROOM F/1B

This week students in F/1B enjoyed working with their parents during their Literacy learning. We consolidated our learning of the Uu sound by making sun catcher umbrellas using tissue paper.

They look very effective when the sun shines through our window.

We demonstrated our developing knowledge of our ‘Camera Words’ by playing a memory game that the parents could watch. The students were very proud of their growth this term. We almost

know all of our Camera words!

Congratulations F/1B.